Paul Stamets may be the most passionate mycologist on the planet. He tells Steve why new medicines and technologies derived from mushrooms might save life as we know it.More
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Richard Holmes talks with Steve Paulson about how art and science influenced each other during the Romantic period.More
Jonah Lehrer says that the great French writer Proust described insights into the way the mind processes memory long before the scientists could prove how the brain worked.More
Ray Kurzweil tells Steve Paulson humans will merge with new technology and vastly improve their intelligence.More
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says most neuroscientists have downplayed the differences between the left and right sides of the brain. He says he thinks the left hemisphere has become so dominant in Western culture that we're losing the sense of what makes us human.More
James Gardner is the author of “Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe.”More
Biologist David George Haskell spent a year making weekly visits to the same one-square-meter patch of old-growth forest near his home in Tennessee. His writes about his experiment in "contemplative science" in a series of gorgeous essays, called "The Forest Unseen".More
Brian Boyd talks with Anne Strainchamps about how our love of storytelling helped us evolve.More
Renowned biologist E.O. Wilson talks with Steve Paulson about the difficulty of reconciling science and religion.More
Are we witnessing the birth of a new "dark green religion"?More
Deborah Blum talks about the serious scientific effort undertaken by an elite group of scientists and scholars a hundred years ago to investigate the supernatural.More
Deborah Blum tells the remarkable story of the scientists who invented forensic medicine and figured out how to catch murderers using poison.More
Ann Gibbons is an award-winning science writer and author of “The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors.”More
Why is filmmaker Errol Morris is still outraged by the famous philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn?More
TTBOOK technical director Caryl Owen explains why she’s always been fascinated by rocks and the language of geology.More
Missy Makinia donated her kidney to whoever might need it. Her transplant surgeon — Josh Mezrich — invited Shannon into his operating room to see firsthand what it takes to remove and transport a human kidney.More
Larry Brilliant is best known as part of the United Nations team of doctors responsible for curing smallpox. But back in the 1960s, he was a hippie whose guru told him his destiny was to help cure smallpox.More
Manu Prakash invented a paper microscope that’s now being used in research labs and classrooms around the world.More